The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-30
FLORIDA.
Barlow wants a national bank.

Barlow wants natlOnal Dank.
A number of new dwellings are soon to be
erected at Trabue.
An Ocala sunfiower is thirty-five inches
| in circumference.
| Nearly every town in the State will cele-
brate the Fourth OF July.
Dozier & Bickers have closed out their
business in Barlow and will return to
Georgia.
Bay trees that were planted out on Ok
ford streets on Arbor day now have beauti-
full blooms.
The court house at Brooksville is being
moved gradually toward the centre of the
| public square.
| The Governor has RENTED the whole of
the fine against John A. Freese, of San An
tonic, amounting to 5000.
The Seminole Indians had their green
corn dance last week, and rejoiced greatly
over their bounteous harvest
The receipts of the custom house at Key
West last week were the largest of any
week for a long time-$23, 900.
George r. Schultz will add ten or twelve
rooms to his Tarpon Hotel at Punta RasSa,
in time for the fall and winter travel
The firm of Boully & Wilhelm at Arcadia
has been dissolved by the withdrawal of the
former who is succeeded by DIR. Medlin.
Shipping watermelons is all the go at Ok
ford Just now, and the crop is conceded
| to be one of the best raised in several years.
/ Seventy-five beautiful cabbage palmetto
trees will be planted on the streets of Trabue
by the Florida Southern Railway Company
soon.
Trout fishing from the Trabue wharf can
not be excelled. 1t is no unusual thing to
see IS or 100 fine trout drawn out in fore
noon.
The Labor party of the State will meet
early in the fall at Pensacola or Jackson
Vile, to arrange for united and cooperative
action.
Owing to the recent heavy rains, the st.
Johns river is rising very rapidly in South
Florida, and great deal OF the low lands is
overflowed.
1t is the intention to have the new Meth
odist church building at Arcadia in sufii-
GENTLY completed state to hold the quarterly
meeting in.
The Kerr City Advertiser has just issued
a fourteen-page number, in which the adj
vantages of the city and vicinity are enter
tainingly presented.
At Jacksonville, so far, between 500, 900
and S2l 900 have been subscribed for the
sub-tropical exposition. 1t is expected TO
raise yet about $4,000.
l. q. VI FOIl hCSO1, has dlTtduy
picked from a little over an acre of land
over 100 crates of cukes, which he has sold
for So and higher per crate.
Mr.. Sewers, of Seneca, has now 1900
vines growing, embracing thirty-five varie-
ties of American grapes, and is making a
complete success of their culture.
The Church of the Disciples at Pensacola
is negotiating for the purchase of the old
Presbyterian church, which will be vacated
vshen the new church is completed.
A. w. Gilchrist started from Trabue for
Palatka Wednesday to sign contracts for
delivering 2,l00 barrels of shell to be used
ON the grounds of Hotel Punta Gorda.
N. Schlemmer has purchased two lots on
Second street, Cedar Key, and will erect
thereon large business block. The founda-
ton of this block will be of concrete, and
the building of brick.
At Cedar Key the foundation for q
Methodist church is being built near the
corner of G and Third streets It is pro-
posed to erect a small but handsome and
comfortable building.
The corps Of engineers are now camped
at the Cray place, near Brooksville, rum
ming the preliminary line of the Orange
Belt railroad. IL will not be long before
they reach Brooksville.
The old powder magazine at Tallahassee
has been condemned and abolished by the
City Council, and the 1000 pounds of pow
der now stored there ordered to be moved
out within thirty days.
The board of trustees of the First Congre-
gational church, of Lake Helen, has de-
cided TO go on with the erection of the
building at once, and have awarded the con-
tract to j. z. Mace, for 81, 100.
The walls of DR.. Thompson's office build
ing at Ocala are going up The foundation
OF his brick block, 50xl00, two stories, on
Magnolia street, is being laid. The work on
+. W. Agnew's brick block has also begun
A great deal of tobacco is now ripening in
Columbia county, and cutting is becoming
quite general. The quality on an average
is better than that Of last year, and if prop
~ handled from now out the crop viii com
mand good price.
DR. Cromwell brought into Gainesville
Friday morning hill of teosinte. which
came from one seed. There are thirty-three
good stalks on it, the height Of which is S